Lost Explorers: Adventurers Who Disappeared Off The Face Of The Earth

Description

Features approximately 80 adventurers who gave their lives in the cause of discovery. This book discusses the adventurers chronologically, and the various entries cover their careers up-to and including their final mission. It features maps, portraits, photos and quotations from diaries and letters.

Author description

Ed Wright is a social commentator and regular contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian, and the Australian Financial Review. He was the co-founder of the satirical Strewth! magazine and has a PhD in American Literature from the University of Sydney. He is also the author of History's Greatest Scandals, Celebrity Family Trees and A Left-Handed History of the World (Murdoch Books).